The higher written paper, however, was considered tough with longer than expected comprehension passages and a writing section that was described by one teacher as "remote".

Why the Reading Comprehension Section is Difficult Passages in this section are crafted to be dry and impenetrable. While a careful reader could decipher them in time, time is in short supply.

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Philip DiStefano, Sheila Valencia, The Effects of Syntactic Maturity on Comprehension of Graded Reading Passages, The Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 73, No. 5 (May - Jun., 1980), pp. 247-251 ...